The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... soul . Ecstatic delight in nature , exu- berant wealth of imagination , a pervading reverence for the supernatural , characterize every department of their literature . The same religious impress is on their history . They have been ...
... soul . Ecstatic delight in nature , exu- berant wealth of imagination , a pervading reverence for the supernatural , characterize every department of their literature . The same religious impress is on their history . They have been ...
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... soul in temptation and sin ; that man's great object should be to withdraw himself entirely from Nature , and thus become completely absorbed in the eternal Soul of the Universe , from which his own soul originally emanated . Penances ...
... soul in temptation and sin ; that man's great object should be to withdraw himself entirely from Nature , and thus become completely absorbed in the eternal Soul of the Universe , from which his own soul originally emanated . Penances ...
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... soul an inexpressible feeling of calm happiness . Graceful trees bent under the weight of fruits and flowers . Their flexible branches balanced themselves to the breath of the breeze , which , in passing , took from them the sweetest ...
... soul an inexpressible feeling of calm happiness . Graceful trees bent under the weight of fruits and flowers . Their flexible branches balanced themselves to the breath of the breeze , which , in passing , took from them the sweetest ...
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... soul by some phrase similar in signification to " the breath of life . " Brahm is sometimes called Alma , or the Breathing Soul . Regarding the air as his breath , it forms part of their religious exercises to retain it in their lungs ...
... soul by some phrase similar in signification to " the breath of life . " Brahm is sometimes called Alma , or the Breathing Soul . Regarding the air as his breath , it forms part of their religious exercises to retain it in their lungs ...
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... Soul of the Universe . Sir William Jones remarks : - " It never seems to have entered the heads of Hindoo legisla ... souls are de- pendent on the good offices of those who survive them ; therefore it is enjoined that sacrifices be ...
... Soul of the Universe . Sir William Jones remarks : - " It never seems to have entered the heads of Hindoo legisla ... souls are de- pendent on the good offices of those who survive them ; therefore it is enjoined that sacrifices be ...
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